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Cabins Built by Apprentices Dedicated to Young Soldier

Apprentices from the New England Carpenter Training Center in Millbury, MA, recently completed a project at Camp Burgess, a YMCA summer camp in Sandwich, MA. The project began last September and was finished in time for the start of summer camp. Instructor Dana Bean oversaw the training project, which gave apprentices the unique opportunity for hands-on training off site from the training center.


The YMCA hoped for many years to build new cabins, but financial concerns kept the project on hold. Using the project as a training opportunity for apprentices saved the camp an estimated $35,000 in labor costs. With plans for a complete redesign of the camp in the future, both parties hope the training center will be able to work on projects at the camp in the future.

This summer, the South Shore YMCA dedicated the six cabins to honor Dana Bean’s son Matthew, who died of injuries suffered in Iraq while serving as a member of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.

Kerry speaks out for EFCA

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry publicly reinforced his support for the Employee Free Choice Act today in a Guest Opinion piece in the Fall River (MA) Herald News. The bill, which would make it easier for workers to organize using either card check recognition or a secret ballot election, will be the biggest labor battle in Washington in several years.

Most American say they would like to be in a union, if the opportunity were more readily available, but heavy handed campaign tactics and little enforcement against rule breaking employers during NLRB elections often keep organizing efforts from moving forward successfully.